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The Governor’s Cup, Kentucky at Louisville.
Crunching a few numbers, since 1994, the series has been a fixture for television, albeit played on whatever day and at whatever time a network chooses.
Kentucky leads the series 14-10 and it has been a model for parity. Each school has won half of the last 10 games.
From coaches Howard Schnellenberger to Charlie Strong, Rich Brooks and Joker Phillips, the passion and bragging have been kept mostly at a healthy tone and temperature and decibel level.

The Lady Bears Volleyball team has been busy in the first full week of the season, including a multi-game tournament over the weekend.
The girls opened the season last Monday with a win over Iroquois, then came right back the next night to play North Bullitt. The girls lost 3-0, dropping sets by scores of 25-8, 25-10 and 25-11. On Thursday, the girls hosted Collins and fell 3-1, winning one set 27-25, but losing three with scores of 25-6, 25-15 and 25-21.

Clint and Kim Rogers announce the birth of their son, Charles Keith Rogers, on July 19 at Suburban Hospital.
He weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces and was 19 1/4 inches long.
He was welcomed home by big sister, Baileigh.
His grandparents are Larry and Vickie Rogers and James and Barbara Bogard. Great-grandmothers are Aretta Rogers and Clyeda Hardin, all of Taylorsville.

Candidates running for office in the November election drew for their ballot positions at the County Clerk’s office last Thursday. Two city commission candidates were present to draw — Jack Proctor and Beverly Ingram. Candidate Ellen Redmon sent her daughter-in-law, Megan, to draw in her place.

Spencer County High School’s agriculture program was recently selected as the 2012 Kentucky Outstanding Middle/Secondary School Agriculture Education Program, according to a news release from the National Association of Agricultural Educators, Inc.
According to the release, applicants are judged on a variety of criteria, including teaching philosophy, effective classroom and experiential instruction, development of partnerships and professional growth.

I was among friends last week, discussing the virtues of okra. Some preferred to categorize the “slime” as a “thickening agent” while others insisted you needed to be a woodpecker to eat one.
The little ones are best, of course, but often they get too big to be edible. While okra is indeed a great thickening agent in gumbo and other quintessential southern dishes, there is another plant lurking in the garden that can do the same — and you can usually just find it growing along a path or in the flower garden.

The state’s produce industry continues to expand in terms of producers, volume, marketing outlets and sales, which are likely to exceed a record-breaking $33 million in 2012. That is what a new study from the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture has found.